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2024

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2025

February


Latest  events . . .

SLSA events

SLSA Annual Conference 2024, Portsmouth: in-person registration closed; online registration closes on 22 March

From the University to the Grand Chamber: How can academic work on asylum and immigration have greater impact in the European Court of Human Rights?, Royal Holloway University of London: programme available and registration open 

Contemporary Challenges in Migration Research, Ulster University Belfast

Other events

Book Launch: Paid to Care – Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture, QMUL, University of London 

Agricultural Pesticides vs Food Sustainability: A need to produce ground-breaking knowledge from an interdisciplinary and dialoguing perspective, Queen's University Belfast: call for papers

#publicdisco Special Edition: From crisis to empowerment, Public Law Project, London

Book Discussion: ‘Grievance Formation, Rights and Remedies’, Porthania, University of Helsinki – hybrid

Book Discussion: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion, QMUL, London

Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge Conference, Northumbria Law School: call for abstracts

Free Evidencing Impact Workshops, online from NCRM

Waste as Site for Global Dis/Ordering, online from QMUL

McGill BLP SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy, Montreal, Canada: call for applications


2024


March

Technology, Transparency and Criminal Justice

Date: 19 March 2024

Venue: IALS, London

This is the launch of Offending Justice by Judith Townend and Lucy Welsh (Bristol University Press, 2023). See website for details.

How Can We Prevent Gender-based Violence? A 10-year vision

Dates: 19–20 March 2024

Venue: The Studio, Riverside West, Leeds

See website for details of this British Academy event.

How to get a PhD in Law: The PhD journey – Supervision, research ethics and preparing yourself for upgrade and vivas

Date: 20 March 2024

Venue: in-person at Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Russell Square, London

See website for details.

Access to Climate/Environmental Justice from a Decolonial Perspective

Date: 20 March 2024

Venue: online from Anglia Ruskin University

Speaker: Sue Willman

See announcement for details.

Book Launch: Paid to Care – Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture

Date: 20 March 2024

Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, University of London 

Disussants: Dr Rachel Randall (author) and Dr Holly Eva Ryan

See website for details.

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Book Discussion: ‘Grievance Formation, Rights and Remedies’

Date: 20 March 2024

Venue: Porthania, University of Helsinki – hybrid

Author: Professor Daniela Alaattinoğlu

See website for details. 

Director’s Seminar: Constitutional Supremacy – Different experiences in the United States, in India and Malta

Date: 21 March 2024

Venue: IALS, London

Speaker: Professor Tonio Borg

Chair: Professor Carl Stychin

See website for details.

Twenty-First Century Media? Affective bodies, crowds and collectives

Dates: 21–23 March 2024

Venue: Sarai Media Programme of CSDS, Delhi, India

See website for details. 

UK SALSA Inaugural Meeting

Date: 25 March 2024

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London

Organised by the UK South Asian Legal Scholars Association. See invitation for details of this inperson event.

Our Interlocked Universe: Sociohistorical Network Analysis

Dates: 26–27 March 2024

Venue: University of Southampton 

Organised by the National Centre for Research Methods. See website for details. 

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Waste as Site for Global Dis/Ordering

Date: 27 March 2024

Venue: online from QMUL

Speakers: Heather Davis, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media, The New School, New York; Michael Hennessy Picard, University of Edinburgh School of Law

See website for details.

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April

Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion

Date: 3 April 2024

Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London, and online

See website for details.

Book Discussion: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion

Date: 3 April 2024

Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London

Author: Anita Casavantes Bradford (University of California Irvine)

See website for details.

Propaganda and Emerging Technologies: Information Society Project

Dates: 5–6 April 2024

Venue: Yale Law School, New Haven CT, USA

See website for details. 

Attempting to Kill the Law of Peace

Date: 11 April 2024

Venue: Mansfield Cooper Building, University of Manchester

Speaker: Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame

Organised by the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Instituteand the Law School at the University of Manchester. See website for details.

Researching Human Rights in a War Zone

Date: 11 April 2024

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

Speaker: Brian Dooley, Senior Advisor, Human Rights First, Washington DC

See website for details.

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Reimagining the Public-Private Divide

Dates: 12–13 April 2024

Venue: University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

See website for details. 

Domestic Abuse in a New Immigration Landscape – The challenges facing migrant victim-survivors of domestic abuse

Date: 16 April 2024

Venue: City Law School, City University of London

See website and programme for details.

How to get a PhD in Law: The PhD in Law and research methods

Date: 17 April 2024

Venue: online from IALS

See website for details.

Free Evidencing Impact Workshops

Date: 17 April 2024

Venue: online from NCRM

There are two workshops: one for ECRs and one for established researchers. See website for details. 

The Juridification of Justice: Potentials and Limitations

Dates: 18–19 April 2024

Venue: University of Exeter

See announcement for details. 

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Hierarchies of Citizenship: Criminology, global inequality, and the injustice of membership

Date: 18 April 2024

Venue: The Great Hall, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast 

Speaker: Professor Katja Franko, University of Oslo

This is the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice Annual Lecture. See website for details.  

#publicdisco Special Edition: From crisis to empowerment, Public Law Project, London

Date: 19 April 2024

Venue: Allen & Overy, 1 Bishops Square, London

See website for details.

Art Not Evidence: Issues and implications of prosecuting rap

Date: 30 April 2024

Venue: LSE, Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 2AE

See website for details and registration.

The Realisation of Human Rights in Societies Beyond Growth

Dates: 30 April 2024–1 May 2024

Venue: University of Essex, Colchester

See website for details.

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May

Student-led PhD Conference 2024 (PGRs and ECRs): call for papers

Date: May 2024 tbc

Venue: Liverpool John Moores University

See announcement for details. Closing date: 16 February 2024.

Symposium on Climate Change and Migration: call for papers

Date: 2 May 2024

Venue: Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin

See website for details. Call closes: 28 February 2024.

Law Network Doctoral Conference: Coercion and Well-being in Europe

Dates: 6–7 May 2024

Venue: Nantes Université, France 

See announcement for details. 

Writing Workshop for Early Career Scholars from the Global South

Dates: 6–7 May 2024

Venue: Singapore

See website for details.

From the University to the Grand Chamber: How can academic work on asylum and immigration have greater impact in the European Court of Human Rights?: programme available and registration open 

Date: 9 May 2024

Venue: Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey

See website for programme and registration details. This is an SLSA-supported Impact Grant event. 

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Race, Legal Form and the Labour Contract

Date: 9 May 2024

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, Endsleigh Gardens, London

Speaker: Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, University of Kent

Chair: Professor Nicola Countouris, UCL Laws

See website for details.

17th Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference: call for papers

Dates: 10–11 May 2024

Venue: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Theme: Law and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

See announcement for details. Call closes: 8 March 2024.

Reforming the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990: Workshop on posthumous conception

Date: 10 May 2024

Venue: Birmingham Conference & Events Centre, Birmingham

See announcement and webpage for further details and registration.

How to get a PhD in Law Researching, disseminating and publishing

Date: 15 May 2024

Venue: online from IALS

See website for details.

LCH Graduate Student Workshop 2024: call for papers

Date: 16 May 2024

Venue: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

See website for details. Closing date: 31 January 2024. This student workshop precedes the LCH conference below.

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Contemporary Challenges in Migration Research

Date: 17 May 2024

Venue: Ulster University Belfast

See announcement and flyer for details of this event which is funded via the SLSA Seminar Competition.

Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities: Senses of Law: call for papers

Dates: 17–18 May 2024

Venue: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

See website for details. Closing date: 31 January 2024.

Deepfakes and the Law: registration now open

Date: 20 May 2024

Venue: City, University of London, Northampton Square Campus

See website for details. 

McGill BLP SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy: call for applications

Dates: 26–31 May 2024

Venue: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

See announcement and website for details. Application close: 31 March 2024.

Modern South Asia Workshop: call for applications from advanced graduate students and recent PhDs

Dates: 27–28 May 2024

Venue: South Asia location tbc

Organised by the Yale Macmillan Center, South Asian Studies Council. See website for details. Closing date: 29 February 2024.

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Using Creative Research Methods

Dates: 28–29 May 2024

Venue: University of Southampton 

Organised by the National Centre for Research Methods. See website for details.

Everyday Ambassadors: Lessons from Socio-Legal Studies for a Fractured World

Date: 29 May 2024

Venue: Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford

Speaker: Professor Annelise Riles

See website for details of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies' Annual Lecture.

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June

Europe Twenty Years after the 2004 Enlargement of the EU: Vices, virtues, and future challenges – call for papers

Dates: 6–7 June 2024

Venue: Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland 

See announcement for details of this 3rd Annual Nomos Conference. Call closes: 29 February 2024.

Conference on Empirical Legal Studies: call for papers

Dates: 5–7 June 2024

Venue: São Paulo, Brazil

See website for details. Call closes: 31 January 2024.

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2024

Dates: 6–9 June 2024

Venue: Hyatt Regency Denver, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

Theme: 'Unsettling Territories: Tradition and Revolution in Law and Society'

See website for details. 

In the Thick of Images: Law, history and the visual

Dates: 10–11 June 2024

Venue: University of Lucerne, Switzerland

See website for details. 

Workshop: Legal struggles on Indigenous land rights in Sápmi: call for papers

Dates: 12–13 June 2024

Venue: School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg

See website for details. Call closes: 29 February 2024.

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Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law: New spaces, temporalities and actors

Date: 19 June 2024

Venue: in-person event, Manchester Metropolitan University

See announcement for details. 

WG Hart Workshop 2024: 'Historicising jurisprudence: person, community, form'

Dates: 26–27 June 2024

Venue: Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London

See announcement for details.

Workshop: Marking 100 years of the ban on cameras in courtrooms: call for papers

Date: 21 June 2024

Venue: SOAS University of London

See announcement for details. Closing date: 5 April 2024.

ALT Annual Seminar: Community and purpose in the law school: call for papers

Dates: 26–27 June 2024

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

See announcement for details.

Social Sciences for Democracy: call for papers

Dates: 26–28 June 2024

Venue: Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

See website for details. Call closes: 15 February 2024.

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NCRM summer school: 'Large and Complex Social Surveys – New Horizons': open for applications

Dates: 26–28 June 2024

Venue: University of Edinburgh

See website for details. Applications are open for this free event, but places are limited.

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July

Kafka’s imprint on Law and the Arts, 100 Years since The Trial

Date: July 2024 (tbc)

Venue: University of Southampton

See website for details. 

European Birds of Passage Summer School: call for applications

Dates: 1–4 July 2024

Venue: Strasbourg, France.

See website for details. Applications close on 1 March at 11.59am (Paris time).

Agricultural Pesticides vs Food Sustainability: A need to produce ground-breaking knowledge from an interdisciplinary and dialoguing perspective: call for papers

Dates: 3–4 July 2024

Venue: School of Law, Queen's University Belfast

See announcement for details. Call closes: 31 March 2024.

British Legal History Conference 2024: Insiders and outsiders in the history of law

Dates: 3–6 July 2024

Venue: University of Bristol Law School

Booking is now open. See website for details. 

IVR Congress 2024

Date: 7–12 July 2024

Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy

See website and poster for details. 

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British Academy Summer Showcase

Dates: 12–13 July 2024

Venue: British Academy, London 

See website for details.

'Law in an Age of Permacrisis': International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law Annual Round Table 2024 – call for papers

Dates: 16–17 July 2024

Venue: Keele University 

See website for details. Call closes: 26 January 2024.

International Legal Ethics Conference 2024: call for papers

Dates: 17–19 July 2024

Venue: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Theme: Legal Professionals in a Digitalising World

See website for details. Call closes: 7 February 2024.

4th Asian Legal History Conference: call for papers

Dates: 25–26 July 2024

Venue: University of Law, Hue, Viet Nam

See announcement for details. Calll closes: 15 March 2024.

Is There Hope for Equality Law? 11th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination

Dates: 26–28 July 2024

Venue: National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Bangalore, India

Hosted by NLSIU and The Oxford Human Rights Hub. See website for details. 

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Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute: call for applications

Dates: 29 July–9 August 2024

Venue: Jesus College, Oxford

See website for details. Closing date for applications: 24 April 2024.

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August

World Congress of Philosophy 2024: SAFI Roundtable on women in legal philosophy

Dates: 1–8 August 2024

Venue: La Sapienza, Rome

See webpage for details.

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 September

Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Conference 2024 Representing Law: call for papers extended

Dates: 3–6 September 2024

Venue: Bangor University, North Wales

See website and call for papers for details. Call for papers extended to: 3 March 2024.

Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International law, critique, and structural change: call for papers

Dates: 3–7 September 2024

Venue: Kochi, Kerala, India

See website for details. Call closes: 2 February 2024.

Féminisme, droit et citoyenneté II/Feminism, Law and Citizenship II

Dates: 8–10 September 2024

Venue: University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

See announcement for details. 

Consent: 5th SAFI Annual Conference – call for papers

Dates: 10–12 September 2024

Venue: University of Glasgow

See website for details. Call closes: 1 March 2024.

Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge Conference

Date: 17 September 2024

Venue: Northumbria Law School

See announcement for details. Call for abstracts closes: 26 April 2024.

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Human Rights in Migration Societies: Exploring the Intersection of Human Rights and Migration in Law, Politics, and Everyday Life: call for papers

Dates: 18–20 September 2024

Venue: Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

See announcement and website for details. Call closes: 31 January 2024.

Human Rights and Northern Ireland: call for papers

Date: 27 September 2024

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

See announcement for details. Closing date: 29 February 2024.

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October

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History: call for proposals and papers

Dates: 24–26 October 2024

Venue: San Francisco, USA

See website for details. Call for proposals closes: 16 February 2024. Call for papers closes: 15 March 2024.

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November

Histories of Sexuality in the Time of Crisis Workshop: call for papers

Dates: 8–9 November 2024

Venue: Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

See website for details. Call closes: 10 March 2024.

Ninth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants: call for papers

Dates: 8–14 November 2024

Venue: Kolkata, India

See announcement for details. Call closes: 8 March 2024.


December

Common Law Forms in Civil Law Asia, Australian National University: call for papers

Dates: 5–7 December 2024

Venue: Australian National University, Canberra

See announcement for details. Call closes: 5 May 2024.


2025


February


2nd Conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society: call for panel proposals

Dates: 10–12 February 2025

Venue: Institute of Social Anthropology, UniS, University of Bern, Switzerland

See website for details.

 

 

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